Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her third volume of poetry, Material Witness, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in October 2024. Her other works include the poetry collections Emporium (Nightboat, 2020) and Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), a translation from the French of Farid Tali’s novel Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016), the essay pamphlet The End (Ugly Duckling, 2020); and several poetry chapbooks. Machado’s writing appears in journals like BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Lana Turner, Volt, Western Humanities Review, and Jacket2, among others. A recipient of the James Laughlin Award (for Emporium) and The Believer Poetry Award (for Some Beheadings), Machado serves as an Advisory Poetry Editor at The Paris Review and works as an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati.